[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/ Wisconsin Genealogy Index] searches for "pre-1907 Vital Records (VR), including birth, death, and marriage records as well as for 150,000 Wisconsin Name Index (WNI) records, including biographical sketches, obituaries, and newspaper articles published before 2000." Made possible by The Schoenleber Foundation and the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society.

[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/ Wisconsin Genealogy Index] searches for "pre-1907 Vital Records (VR), including birth, death, and marriage records as well as for 150,000 Wisconsin Name Index (WNI) records, including biographical sketches, obituaries, and newspaper articles published before 2000." Made possible by The Schoenleber Foundation and the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society.

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Wisconsin State Agency Databases

This is an annotated list of databases produced by Wisconsin State Agencies listed by producing agency.

If you are a registered user of this wiki, feel free to add a database or fix broken links on this list. You may also contact the documents specialist for this page - Barbara Bren at Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (brenb AT uww DOT gov).

STATE GOVERNMENT DATABASES

There are many government services that are available to you any time, day or night, from anywhere that provides internet access, including many public libraries. This is a partial list of databases designed to assist users with some of the more popular public services. Wisconsin online services.

Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Dept. of

Agriculture resources

Landscape Pesticide Advance Notice Registry allows citizens to request to be notified in advance whenever pesticides are applied to your neighbor's lawns, trees and shrubs by commercial lawn and landscape firms. The companies will notify registry members before the pesticides are applied. Deadline for being added to the 2012 list is Feb. 1, 2012. The full registry is available online, arranged by county.

Pesticide Databases allow searching for registered pesticide products, the companies that sell and use pesticides, and the people that apply them.

Arts Board, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Art and Craft Fairs Directory is a comprehensive listing of art and craft fairs throughout the state. The directory contains information for both artists interested in showing their work and people who wish to attend the events. Click on the month(s) of interest, or select to view the directory as a pdf.

The Wisconsin Arts Board eGrant database allows registered users (registration is free) to read news about available and open grant applications, register your organization, view and work on current electronic applications, or access previously submitted applications, grant award agreements, and final reports.

Wisconsin Folksis a database of Wisconsin artists that are available to perform or demonstrate their work to school groups and others. The database can be searched by art form, ethnicity, location of the artist, or theme. Each entry includes a lengthy description with photos, additional links and contact information.

Business and Economic Development resources

Commerce, Dept. of

Wisconsin Exporters Online, created by the Wisconsin Department of Commerce in partnership with The Export Yellow Pages, allows browsing or searching for products and services Wisconsin can supply to the world.

Wisconsin Economic Development Association

Locate in Wisconsin is provided by the Wisconsin Economic Development Association and the State of Wisconsin Department of Commerce to facilitate searching for sites and buildings information for businesses seeking to relocate or expand in Wisconsin. Click on the search type, then on "Refine your search." (alternate site from Forward Wisconsin, powered by the LocationOne® Information System (LOIS))

Historical Society, Wisconsin

Genealogy resources

Wisconsin Genealogy Index searches for "pre-1907 Vital Records (VR), including birth, death, and marriage records as well as for 150,000 Wisconsin Name Index (WNI) records, including biographical sketches, obituaries, and newspaper articles published before 2000." Made possible by The Schoenleber Foundation and the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society.

Education (including Higher Education)

EE in Wisconsin, a guide to Wisconsin's environmental education organizations, programs, materials, and professionals. Users can search for schools, events, and organizations by distance, location, topic or audience age-level. Individuals and groups may register and add their own listings too.

The School Finance Data Warehouse shows current financial data for school districts. Users may view a profile of a given school district, choose from one of eight standard reports or create a custom report. Data may be collected for a single school district or multiple districts in various categories. Reports may be downloaded as Excel files. Figures are based on current data. School business administrators are required to maintain current budget information through the Data Warehouse.

The Dept. of Public Instruction has created a Catalog of Webcasts (online video recordings) to provide professional development and information about Department programs for teachers, librarians, school administrators and support staff.

WINSSis the Wisconsin Information Network for Successful Schools. WINSS contains School Performance Report Data, information on Standards and Assessment, methods for implementing School Improvement, and a collection of Best Practices. The Data Collection portion of WINSS provides statistics on academic performance, attendance and dropout rates, extracurricular involvement, funding, staffing patterns and student demographics. Users may search by school, district, county or CESA (Cooperative Educational Services Agency). Data from one or more districts may be compared with state averages or another group of districts.

Employment, Labor and Workforce Information

Equal Rights (ER) Decisions from the Labor and Industry Review Commission of the Wisconsin Dept. of Workforce Development concerning Equal Rights and Discrimination claims.

Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission Awards and Grievances This public agency works with the public and private sector to conduct hearings and issue labor relations decisions in administrative law and contract grievance disputes; mediate contract negotiations and grievance disputes; conduct secret-ballot employe votes; and provide labor management cooperation training and facilitation. This database of decisions is hosted by the State Bar Association of Wisconsin.

Government Finance and Taxes

Wisconsin Tax Appeals Decisions in full-text from the Tax Appeals Commission of the Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue (1999 - to date). The decisions are searchable by year or browsable by title. This site is hosted by the State Bar Association of Wisconsin.

Health and Medicine

Catalog of Web Presentations from the Dept. of Health Services (2005-). View training seminars, webcasts on emergency preparedness, and recordings of Dept. Board and Committee meetings, and conferences.

Wisconsin Licensed Child Care Search Wisconsin's Licensed Child Care Search contains information on the location and regulatory history of the almost 6,000 child care centers and day camps licensed by the Department of Children and Families (DCF). This information is provided to assist you in locating and learning more about licensed child care in your area. Through the Licensed Child Care Search, you can search for licensed child care by county, city, zip code or facility name. Once you have located a child care center or day camp, you can review the facility's licensing information including compliance history and enforcement actions.

History and Culture

Wisconsin Stories, historical documentaries and supplementary materials produced and compiled by Wisconsin Public Television.

The Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Catalog documents over 680 memorials dedicated to Wisconsin veterans. These memorials are located throughout the State of Wisconsin, the United States, and overseas. The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center maintains this information and is dedicated to locating new memorials and other designated honors to Wisconsin veterans. The catalog documents the history, physical condition, and location of each memorial. New memorials and honors are dedicated every year.

Wisconsin War Letters compiled by the Educational Communications Board. Wisconsin War Letters is a Web-based digital media showcase featuring projects created by our state’s students. This project puts first-person accounts of Wisconsin citizens’ World War II experiences into the hands of students, inspiring further research and creative expression.

Land Use, Development and Construction

Deeds Database compiled by the Wisconsin Secretary of State.
"When the State of Wisconsin purchases land, the deed with related documentation for the property is filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. Lands purchases include property for state forests or parks, for miscellaneous wildlife areas, and for land with buildings. If a record cannot be located in the Secretary of State’s database, a search of the Archives at the Wisconsin State Historical Society is suggested."

Municipal Data System maintained by the Dept. of Administration's Division of Intergovernmental Relations. This is a database of municipal boundary adjustments via annexation, boundary agreement, detachment, consolidation, and incorporation.

Wisconsin Briefscompiled by the UW Law Library. Includes Published and Unpublished Cases from 173 Wis. 2d to 302 Wis.2d. Recent briefs are available at the Wisconsin State Law Library.

MORE DATABASES

Wisconsin Attorney's Professional Discipline Compendium maintained by the Office of Lawyer Regulation of the Wisconsin Court System. The Compendium contains Supreme Court decisions, consent public reprimands, and summaries of consent private reprimands of Wisconsin attorneys, along with an index and search function to facilitate research.

Laws and Regulations

State Statutes
"The Wisconsin Statutes and Annotations reproduced on this website are derived from the computer files used by the Legislative Reference Bureau to produce the official Wisconsin Statutes and Annotations and are updated approximately every 3 months to reflect the changes made by legislation enacted during the legislative session and to editorial notes and annotations." -- from the About the Statutes.

The Wisconsin Statutes and Acts have been digitized back to 1969-1970.

Wisconsin Administrative Code and the Administrative Register The Administrative Register updates the Administrative Code and is published bimonthly. It includes emergency rules, hearing notices, and the text of enacted changes to the Wisconsin Administrative Code, the state regulatory rules. Additional finding aids for researching Wisconsin regulations are available here too.

Who are my legislators? (WAML)Search by municipality, street address or use the district map to identify the names and contact information for the Assembly representative or senator where you live.

Municipal Records Database compiled by the Wisconsin Secretary of State. "Municipal records are submitted to the Office of the Secretary of State by Wisconsin’s towns, villages, cities and counties. Records examples include incorporation papers, annexations, corporate boundaries, maps, and litigation correspondence. Some records are more than 100 years old. If a record cannot be located in the Secretary of State’s database, a search of the Archives at the Wisconsin State Historical Society is suggested."

Natural Resources and Environment

PECFA Brownfield Sites database. The Petroleum Environmental Cleanup Fund Award (PECFA) program was created in response to enactment of federal regulations requiring release prevention from underground storage tanks and cleanup of existing contamination from those tanks. PECFA is a reimbursement program returning a portion of incurred remedial cleanup costs to owners of eligible petroleum product systems including home heating oil systems. This database is searchable by name, company name, site name, Claim ID, BRRTS ID, address, city, Commerce number and Occurrence ID. Search results show a summary of the claim data and costs for each claim submitted.

Minerals of Wisconsin Dr. William S. Cordua, professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, assembled this database of over 300 minerals found in Wisconsin. It allows you to search alphabetically by mineral name and local. There is also a list of Wisconsin geology related attractions and further resources for people interested in mineral identification.

Wisconsin Underground Storage Tank Database This website contains information derived from tank registration information supplied to the Wisconsin Department of Commerce from outside sources. This information is provided as a convenience to assist the public in knowing what information is in the Department's files. The Department adds information to this web site as soon as possible after information is provided to the Department. The Department does not ensure that the web site will contain up-to-date information. The tank data information associated with a tank search is refreshed every weekend. The date listed on the web site as the "This document last revised" is the last date on which the Department modified the screen format of this web site.

Public Assistance and Social Programs

See also our list of resources for those needing assistance (food, shelter, health care and more) and the list of public services. Public assistance resources.

Recreation and Tourism

Find a State Park, Forest or Trail interactive map with annotations and links to specific park websites with maps, directions, current conditions and upcoming events. Pick a Park is a table listing parks and their facilities and amenities so that you can easily see which parks best suit your recreational needs.

Hunting, Fishing and Trapping permits and licenses can be purchased online, as well as registering your recreational vehicle or registering to harvest wild plants such as ginseng and wild rice. This site also has links to all the related regulations and state park information.

Wisconsin Events Calendar sponsored by the Wisconsin Dept. of Tourism. Users can search by date, location, distance, and type of event. Lists community festivals, fairs, sporting events and art shows throughout the state.

State Government

Decisions of the Wisconsin Claims Board (2003 - to date) The Claims Board handles claims for monetary damages made against state agencies. Claims may involve issues such as automobile damage, contract disputes, property loss, personal injury and taxes. The Board also accepts requests for the replacement of stale-dated state checks (see Stale Check Claims section).

Decisions of the Wisconsin Division of Hearings and Appeals This agency conducts hearings for citizens, businesses and local governments that are contesting regulatory decisions made by state agencies. The decisions are arranged chronologically by agency. Most decisions are available from 1995 to date, with some agency decisions available for a shorter or longer duration.

This online Directory of state employees lists phone numbers, email addresses and offices. It is searchable by name, phone number and email address.

WIGrants is a central database for finding sources of grant money for local governments and community groups. The database includes state funded grants and federal grants administered by the state. Each entry contains a description, eligibility requirements, application instructions, deadlines and contact information. Grants can be searched by keyword or by agency.

VendorNetis Wisconsin's electronic purchasing information system. VendorNet was created to provide easy access to a wide variety of information of interest to vendors who wish to provide goods and services to the state as well as state agencies and municipalities.

Transportation

The Wisconsin RIDESHARE program is a database to help commuters match up with one another by location and work hours for carpooling and vanpooling.

Wisconsin Travel Info 511 - Real time updates of local traffic conditions statewide. This web site also has options for customizing the site to remember your travel routes and options for getting the information via mobile devices.